Edie Falco - who played Tony Soprano's wife Carmela, said: "I am shocked and devastated by Jim's passing. He was a man of tremendous depth and sensitivity, with a kindness and generosity beyond words. I consider myself very lucky to have spent 10 years as his close colleague."

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James Gandolfini played Virgil, a brutal woman-beater and mob enforcer, in Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino's 1993 romantic thriller True Romance.
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